Published in U.S. Armed Forces Medical Journal.
MILITARY medicine deals with medical problems peculiar to Armed Forces. It is a general specialty which embrace all phases of medicine, surgery, hygiene, sanitation, preventive medicine, and medical logistics. It must embody sound knowledge not only of basic principles, but also of practical means for the application of modern technologic and engineering advances as they affect human welfare, both physical and psychologic.
The fields of investigation in the province of the military surgeon are not limited to clinical methods alone but must encompass the whole gamut of basic sciences as applied to medical and surgical problems, wherever combat may occur in torrid, temperate, or arctic latitudes on land and sea and in the air and in the waters under the surface of the sea.